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| Operator | Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC |
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| History | |
First air date | August 12, 1980 |
Former call signs | KCWY-TV (1980–1986) |
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Call sign meaning | Great Western Network/Casper, after former sister station KGWN-TV |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 63177 |
| ERP | 53.3 kW |
| HAAT | 562 m (1,844 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°44′26″N 106°21′36″W / 42.74056°N 106.36000°W |
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| Website | yourwyominglink |
KGWC-TV (channel 14) is a television station in Casper, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Big Horn Television LLC, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, owner of Fox affiliate KFNB (channel 20), for the provision of certain services. Coastal also operates ABC affiliate KTWO-TV (channel 2) under a separate SSA with owner Vision Alaska LLC. The stations share studios on Skyview Drive in Casper, while KGWC-TV's transmitter is located atop Casper Mountain. KGWC-TV is rebroadcast on two satellite stations in western Wyoming: KGWL-TV (channel 5) in Lander and KGWR-TV (channel 13) in Rock Springs (part of the Salt Lake City market).
Channel 14 began broadcasting as KCWY-TV—no relation to the present station with that call sign—in August 1980. Its debut marked the first time Casper had competing television stations since 1959; the new station struggled against dominant KTWO-TV in the ratings. The Lander and Rock Springs stations were put on the air in 1982; the Rock Springs station had previously operated on a standalone basis in the late 1970s but was off the air. The local Chrysostom Corporation sold the stations to Stauffer Communications in 1986; the stations received their present call letters and became dependent on KGWN-TV in Cheyenne for most of their news programming. Under the ownership of Benedek Broadcasting in the late 1990s, full local newscasts from Casper resumed, though staff turnover prompted Benedek to discontinue the local operation once more in 2000.
When Benedek declared bankruptcy in 2002, KGWC-TV was sold to a hedge fund which separated it from the Cheyenne station by selling them to separate buyers. The general manager of KFNB, Mark Nalbone, acquired KGWC-TV and used the resources of KTWO-TV, which he also managed, to run channel 14. Nalbone tried to sell the station's assets and CBS affiliation to Gray Television in 2018 but was denied by federal authorities. The Nalbone-owned and managed stations were then sold to their present owners in 2020.
- ^ Jacobson, Adam (October 8, 2019). "A Trio Of TV Re-Do Deals In Wyoming". Radio & Television Business Report. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KGWC-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.